Polish languages?? LOL!


No that similar. I speak French but I don't know Italian.

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[quote=Nordic;188182]Polish languages?? LOL!

I am pretty sure she is talking about Silesian from Upper Silesia.
Actually a very cool dialect, such a mix of polish and german words.

I say moo to you!
Meet me in the moolight!

[quote=Schnappi;188199]Is that where you ger people like Moonshade?

Some Polish people are just like Germans to me. Must have been a lot of mixture and because of the population movements back and forth after the border changes.

French and Italian are very similar. Once you know how to speak French, it's very easy to learn how to speak Italian.

For example :

English French Italian

To eat manger mangiare

To speak parler parlare

To come venir venire

To drink boire bevere

To see voir vedere


And so on....

I speak French and it's very easy for me to learn Italian and Spanish.

Well, this isn't that far away from he truth, as in the Pomeranian region of Poland, where I come from, Kashubian* is sometimes used in rural areas.

*It is still argued, whether Kashubian (Kaszëbsczi) is a dialect of Polish or a separate language (you can actually see that some articles on Wikipedia are in that tongue as well). I can barely understand Kashubian (because my mother comes from �?ódź, central Poland and the origins of my father's family lie in Volhynia or Wołyń in Polish, today's region of Ukraine and his family was resettled to the Baltic coast), besides, the writing system is much different.

If we could distinguish a Pomeranian dialect, yes, it features quite a massive amount of vocabulary derived from German (hey, I come from Gdańsk or Danzig anyway!). It is, however, not that strong as in Silesia.


szlachta (gentry) - e, Schlachte
kartofel (potato in other regions, ziemniak is used) - e, Kartoffel
ratusz (town hall) - s, Rathaus

There are numerous examples.

Additionally, Russian and French words have influenced exist in everyday Polish as well (the latter very rarely though), e.g.:
koszmar (nightmare) - couche mar
mleczny ząb (milk-tooth) - molo�?nyj zub etc.

Nowadays, like in numerous other languages, more and more English loanwords are appearing literally everyday, such as draft, prosperity....

BTW (trivia), I need to highlight the fact that no other grammar is as similar to Latin as the Polish one!

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I've just come back from Serbia. I guess Serbian is easier than Polish.

I mean, you don't have to learn how to pronounce, for example, Rzeczpospolita, Szczecin, Tadeusz Kościuszko...

I spent a few days in Hungary before crossing the border to Serbia. Once I arrived Subotica on one of the 60+ y/o trains that Hitler gave to Yugoslavia (!), the world became so much easier. Suddenly, voda meant water and pivo was beer. Hello was zdravo, which is similar to the Russian equivalent. Under the blue sky, people said to me "Dobar dan!", which was also understandable. I saw a bar called "Pivnica", which was obviously about beers. Besides, Serbian spelling is always consistent:

(Latin) Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava.
(Cyrillic) Само �?лога Србина �?пашава.

One character, one sound.

Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are not even Indo-European languages, so they are really difficult to me.

Now, I am back in England, thinking how to have a wife from Beograd.

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chat's favorite word in german: normalerweise

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